Supplier encroachment and patent licensing strategy in technology-intensive supply chains  

作　　者：Qing Zhang Junyan Zhang Di Wang Yunling Zhang Chenglin Ma 

机构地区：[1]College of Management and Economics,Tianjin University,Tianjin,300072,China [2]Research Center for National Intellectual Property Strategy Implementation of Tianjin University,Tianjin University,Tianjin,300072,China [3]School of Management Science and Engineering,Shanxi University of Finance and Economics,Taiyuan,030006,China

出　　处：《Journal of Management Science and Engineering》2025年第1期1-17,共17页管理科学学报(英文版)

基　　金：supported by The Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science project[21YJA630113].

摘　　要：Supplier encroachment in technology-intensive supply chains is an emerging and important research topic in communication technology.In order to assess the impact of patent licensing on supplier encroachment and firms'performance,we model a technology-intensive supply chain comprising a component supplier holding patents and a product manufacturer.The patent-licensing fee to the retailer is charged either via a component-based strategy(Strategy C),i.e.,a percentage of the component price,or a product-based strategy(Strategy P),i.e.,a percentage of the final-product price.The supplier decides whether to encroach into the market.Our research illustrates that compared with Strategy C,Strategy P allows the supplier to take a share of the manufacturer's market revenue,thus discouraging the supplier from encroachment.Counterintuitively,we find that the supplier prefers to Strategy C when the sales cost is relatively high and the royalty rate under Strategy P is relatively low,and the manufacturer prefers to Strategy P when the sales cost is relatively low or moderate.We also reveals that under certain conditions,the preferences of the supplier and manufacturer for licensing strategies can align with both strategies C and P providing better economic benefits to both parties.

关 键 词：Technology-intensive supply chain Supplier encroachment Patent licensing Component-based strategy(Strategy C) Product-based strategy(Strategy P) 

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